Enrique Serra Y Auque - Portrait Of A Young Spanish Woman

Enrique SERRA AUQUE Barcelona, 1859 - Rome, 1918 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower left “ENRIQUE SERRA/ 1892 ” 40 x 33 cm (45 x 38 cm with frame) Enrique Serra Auqué studied painting at the School of Fine Arts from Barcelona with Ramón Martí Alsina and Domènec Talarn. He continued his studies in Rome in 1879 with Mariano Fortuny at the Chigi academy. Enrique Serra achieves his first successes in Rome. He also received a gold medal at the 1888 Universal Exhibition in Barcelona. He also traveled to Paris where he settled in 1895 and opened a workshop. Enrique Serra Auqué exhibited both in Paris and in Barcelona at Sala Parés. Our painting is characteristic of its genre scenes with pretty young girls in seductive poses. Our painting is particularly reminiscent of a work that went on sale in October 2011 at Sotheby's New York, an “Orange Seller” holding the same ravishing pose, her head lightly resting on her right hand. Serra Auqué's works are preserved in particular at the National Art Museum of Catalonia and at the Víctor-Balaguer Museum Library in Vilanova i la Geltrú in Catalonia.